President Donald Trump invited the Dodgers to the White House. Many of their fans feared that the team, by accepting, would humiliate themselves and betray the team’s large Latino, Asian and African-American fan base. Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter, along with co-owner Magic Johnson, have proposed a solution. Trump has promised that if he can keep the championship trophy, the Commissioner’s Trophy, he will end all seizures and deportations of immigrants.   read more

You would think with all the hoopla surrounding the end of the U.S. “combat mission” in Iraq that Americans are no longer fighting a war there. Unfortunately, the reality is much different. Americans are still being killed in Iraq.   Sgt. Brando...   read more

Not wanting to take anything for granted, what with a Democrat in the White House and Democratic majorities controlling both houses of Congress, environmental groups decided in 2009 to ramp up their lobbying expenditures in order to push through l...   read more

Between the shooting rampage last year that killed 13 soldiers and the stress of warfare, Fort Hood in Texas has its hands full of U.S. Army personnel in need of mental health services. Approximately 25% of all soldiers stationed at the nation’s l...   read more

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is looking for a few good agents … who speak Ebonics. Critics of “African American Vernacular English” can make fun all they want, but the DEA is taking Ebonics seriously as part of its efforts to acquire ...   read more

Taking it slow on the roads outside Beijing, China, hasn’t been much fun lately, but low speeds are part of the excitement at a racetrack in England.   On the National Expressway 110 between Inner Mongolia and China’s capital, thousands of motor...   read more

In order to fulfill his promise to the American people that all U.S. combat units would be withdrawn from Iraq by August 31 of this year, President Barack Obama’s Department of Defense has simply altered the designation of brigades from “combat” t...   read more

Being male isn’t the certainty it used to be for securing employment. In 1972, 75% of men had jobs, according to a new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. By 2009, that rate had fallen more than 10%, down to 64.5%. The percentage of women ...   read more

The problem with the Obama Administration’s plan for taxing the rich (by allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire) is that the increases really don’t target the super rich, writes James Surowiecki in The New Yorker.   By relying on an antiquated tax...   read more

The prince wants his castle back. The prince is 47-year-old Valery Kubarev of Russia, descendant of Ivan the Terrible, who claims the Russian government has no legal claim to the Kremlin and should turn over management of it to his Princes Foundat...   read more

Former college student Leo Burt is known as “Wisconsin’s state ghost.” But no one can prove that Burt is actually dead. The one-time radical who attended the University of Wisconsin four decades ago has been in hiding since he took part in what wa...   read more

Muslims have no business building a $100 million cultural center near Ground Zero in New York City, argue many conservatives and Republicans, and even some Democrats. But worshippers of Islam already have a presence in the World Trade Center neigh...   read more

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan wants all foreign private security contractors out of his country by January 2011…but there’s a loophole.   The U.S. relies heavily on security contractors for a range of important functions, from guarding s...   read more

As if health care wasn’t costly enough in the United States, from the treatment of illnesses and injuries patients bring with them into the doctor’s office, there’s the cost of mistakes made by medical professionals. One assessment has pegged the ...   read more

An early Florida supporter and major fundraiser for President Barack Obama, Francisco “Frank” J. Sánchez received a recess appointment in order to assume the post of Under Secretary for International Trade, becoming the No. 3 person in the Departm...   read more

Wouldn’t it be nice if your employer paid your student loans for you? That’s what the federal government has been doing the past eight years for a select group of government employees.   A report from the Office of Personnel Management shows 36 ...   read more

To keep from losing its business with the U.S. government, Xe Services (formerly called Blackwater Worldwide) has agreed to pay $42 million in fines to the State Department to settle hundreds of violations of export law. Had the security company n...   read more